Amy Arbus - On The Street by Rosecrans Baldwin
From the website: Now that Manhattan is only habitable for the rich, New Yorkers love to look back to the mad '80s, when the Bowery was dangerous and apartments were affordable. Nostalgia stalks the five boroughs (via American Apparel outlets—the Starbucks of style), whether for acid-washed rap fashion, Mudd Club art parties, or coke in cheap bars. But it's not all so glitzy. Between 1980 and 1990, The Village Voice ran photographer Amy Arbus's "On The Street" photo-column, a page documenting downtown's most vibrant, creative dressers and personalities, and now the greatest hits have been published by Welcome Books. We caught up with Arbus to find out how it all started, and whether or not she's packing shoulder pads.
